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argshttps://args.io/

Your landing page’s weakest score is Value props.

How args ranks

  1. 1.daily.dev73
  2. 2.Hashnode72
  3. 3.DEV Community (dev.to)64
  4. 4.Hacker News54
  5. 5.Lobsters52
  6. 6.args36
Fix Value props
36Growth scoreupdated

category scores

Value props15CTA30Information hierarchy42Trust44Mobile web48
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Value props15CTA30Information hierarchy42Trust44Mobile web48

Score over time

807060504030Hacker News 54 on Mar 27 (Wayback)Hacker News 54 on Sep 22 (Live)Lobsters 54 on Mar 29 (Wayback)Lobsters 52 on Sep 22 (Live)daily.dev 72 on Jun 16 (Wayback)daily.dev 70 on Jun 30 (Wayback)daily.dev 68 on Jul 28 (Wayback)daily.dev 67 on Aug 11 (Wayback)daily.dev 72 on Aug 25 (Wayback)daily.dev 72 on Sep 8 (Wayback)daily.dev 73 on Sep 22 (Live)DEV Community (dev.to) 62 on Apr 13 (Wayback)DEV Community (dev.to) 64 on Sep 22 (Live)Hashnode 71 on Jun 17 (Wayback)Hashnode 70 on Jun 28 (Wayback)Hashnode 70 on Jul 27 (Wayback)Hashnode 71 on Aug 11 (Wayback)Hashnode 73 on Aug 26 (Wayback)Hashnode 72 on Sep 12 (Wayback)Hashnode 72 on Sep 22 (Live)args 37 on Jul 14 (Wayback)args 37 on Sep 16 (Wayback)args 36 on Sep 22 (Live)Jul 14Sep 16Sep 22
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  1. Sep 22, 202636LiveOverall −1 · Information hierarchy +8 · Value props −7Viewing
  2. Sep 16, 202637Mobile web +10 · Information hierarchy −8View →
  3. Jul 14, 202637First tracked report — strongest Information hierarchy 42, weakest Value props 22View →

Value props

15Poor

Title, subtitle, hero — do they sell the product's true value?

Working

  • Live feed doubles as social proof
  • Real project names feel authentic

Could improve

  • No headline or tagline anywhere
  • Product purpose is unexplained
  • Vote counts lack any context

CTA

30Poor

Copy, size, verb, cost-feel — does the primary CTA earn the click?

/signup
args
daily.dev
Hashnode
DEV Community (dev.to)
Lobstersin-product action
submit
Hacker News

Problems

  • no button or in-product action
  • '/signup' styled as nav, not CTA
  • no action verb or payoff
  • CTA absent on mobile fold

Information hierarchy

42Poor

Does the design help or inhibit what the page is trying to say?

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture1234
  1. Trending list fold — No headline or value prop anywhere — the fold opens straight into a 20-row link directory with nothing explaining what args is.
  2. /signup sidebar link — The primary conversion is a plain text link identical in weight to /faq and /weeks; a duplicate '(signup)' hides in the bottom status bar.
  3. Equal-weight repo rows — Twenty same-styled link rows are exit paths of identical priority, giving the eye no hierarchy and no reason to stop scanning.
  4. Placeholder repo entry — user-9911f4d2/repo-b2618f3a with underscore gibberish reads as broken content in the third slot, eroding trust in the whole list.

Trust

44Poor

Proof that the product is real, competent, and safe to try.

args
DEV Community (dev.to)
Lobsters
Hacker News
daily.dev
Hashnode
Trust read
argsTrending list of user projects with vote counts, e.g. "bkdevs/args (48)"
Hacker News"1003 points by volf_ 18 hours ago | 453 comments" — live vote and comment counts across 25 stories showing an active co
LobstersLive story feed with vote counts, named users, and timestamps (e.g. "115" votes, "62 comments" on "What Sun got wrong",
daily.dev"Millions of developers use it every day" above a real laptop screenshot of the daily.dev feed (mobile capture)
DEV Community (dev.to)"DEV Community is a community of 4,100,520 amazing developers"
Hashnode"Last 24h: 419 articles, 330 writers" live activity ticker in the top bar

Mobile web

48Poor

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture12
  1. Trending list opens page — Desktop-density repo rows start immediately with no value statement, so visitors land on raw data with zero context for args.
  2. Truncated description lines — Descriptions clip mid-word ("...make win...") instead of reflowing, signaling an unadapted desktop layout.

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop
#1daily.devdaily.dev73 #2Hashnodehashnode.com72 #3DEV Community (dev.to)dev.to64 #4Hacker Newsnews.ycombinator.com54 #5Lobsterslobste.rs52
#6args36